Tyttobrycon
| Tyttobrycon | |
|---|---|
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Division: | Teleostei |
| Order: | Characiformes |
| Family: | Acestrorhamphidae |
| Subfamily: | Tyttobryconinae |
| Genus: | Tyttobrycon Géry, 1973[1] |
| Type species | |
| Tyttobrycon xeruini Géry, 1973[1] | |
Tyttobrycon is a genus of freshwater ray-finned fish belonging to the family Acestrorhamphidae, the American characins.[1] The fishes in this genus are found in the Amazon Basin in South America.[2]
Species
[edit]There are currently six recognized species:[2][3]
- Tyttobrycon dorsimaculatus Géry, 1973
- Tyttobrycon hamatus Géry, 1973
- Tyttobrycon marajoara Marinho, Bastos & Menezes, 2013[3]
- Tyttobrycon shibattai Abrahão, Pastana & Marinho, 2019[4]
- Tyttobrycon spinosus Géry, 1973
- Tyttobrycon xeruini Géry, 1973
References
[edit]- 1 2 3 Fricke, Ron; Eschmeyer, William N. & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Genera in the family Tyttobryconinae". Catalog of Fishes. California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 27 October 2025.
- 1 2 Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Species in genus Tyttobrycon". FishBase. October 2013 version.
- 1 2 Marinho, M.M.F., Bastos, D.A. & Menezes, N.A. (2013): New species of miniature fish from Marajó Island, Pará, Brazil, with comments on its relationships (Characiformes: Characidae). Archived 2013-12-26 at the Wayback Machine Neotropical Ichthyology, 11 (4): 739-746.
- ↑ Abrahão, Vitor Pimenta; Pastana, Murilo; Marinho, Manoela (2019-12-18). "On a remarkable sexual dimorphic trait in the Characiformes related to the olfactory organ and description of a new miniature species of Tyttobrycon Géry (Characiformes: Characidae)". PLOS ONE. 14 (12) e0226130. Bibcode:2019PLoSO..1426130A. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0226130. ISSN 1932-6203. PMC 6919584. PMID 31851726.
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